ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,703, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Virtualized applications on managed virtual machines" was invented by Paul Adam Ryman (Beecroft, Australia), Stephen Jonathan Parry-Barwick (Sidney, Australia), Jairam Choudhary (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Arun Passi (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of enterprise management using managed virtual machines for virtualized applications are described. In some examples, a managed virtual machine is executed on a host device and enrolled with a management service. A virtualized application drive is stored in the managed virtual machine. A l...